Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Common Blue Cohosh from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Caulophyllum thalictroides
FAMILY
Berberidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Caulophyllum thalictroides
FAMILY
Berberidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 077-05-001:
Caulophyllum thalictroides
FAMILY
Berberidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Caulophyllum thalictroides
COMMON NAME:
Common Blue Cohosh, Papooseroot, Green Vivian
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March Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
All parts of the plant have a whitish cast, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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April Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
The oval leaflets are irregularly lobed above the middle, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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April Polk County NC
The six petal-like sepals are yellow-green to purple-green, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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April
True petals are the small yellowish glands at the base of petaloid sepals, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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May Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District
Black Cohosh on the left; Blue Cohosh on the right
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May Graham County NC
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
1 large ternately decompound leaf above inflorescence, 1(2) smaller below, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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July Raleigh County WV
Sandstone Falls
The specific epithet "thalictroides" means resembling Thalictrum.
COMPARE
leaves that resemble Thalictrum
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August Polk County NC
Fruits are dark blue, poisonous, and berry-like, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.